The United Nations has announced that it will globally
extend its employee benefits to workers in same-sex marriages or other
unions.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the change yesterday, stating: “Human rights are at the core of the mission of the United Nations.“I am proud to stand for greater equality for all staff, and I call
on all members of our UN family to unite in rejecting homophobia as
discrimination that can never be tolerated at our workplace.”The move will impact the UN’s over 44,000 staff across the globe.Hyung Hak Nam, of LGBTI group UN-GLOBE, said: “It is with great
pleasure that I would like to inform you that, at long last, the UN will
begin recognizing staff members’ legal same-sex unions.

I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You
hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the
right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You
hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you
talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay
people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black
people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while
demanding their birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate
socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and
spending and the Government. You hate.

You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don't know how
in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you
haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like
people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you
hate. You hate everything else.

Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers
(unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church
and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News
says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a
multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still
demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male
or his submissive and obedient wife.

You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with
Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate
em.

Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you
are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love
America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There
are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they
are full of brown people and you don't like them much either from what I
understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that's not what I am
here to tell you.

Vast is the robe of liberation. A
formless field of benefaction. What a generous, comforting image—a robe
as limitless as the sky, and at the same time a sense of being covered,
held, embraced, protected.

“Everything
that happens in the school of life is meant to teach you how to develop
mental equanimity. If you can already be a channel of love and silence
to some degree, then it is important to share this with other people,
even if you sometimes run the risk of falling, because this fall serves
as a sacrifice as well as a lesson. This descent means that you are
still not completely immune, so if someone invites you to argue with
them, you still accept their invitation. A balanced mind can be in the
world relating to others and still refrain from accepting the invitation
to enter warfare. Regardless of what is happening, the person always
remains the same, simply observing that which is transitory and letting
it pass.”